During New Tang Dynasty TV's (NTDTV) Spectacular in Washington D. C., famous contralto Yang Jiansheng moved many listeners to tears with her song "Tiananmen Please Tell Me." The audience was so deeply touched by the song that they gave her a standing ovation after she finished singing.
Ms. Yang Jiansheng graduated from the China Central Conservatory of Music and the Hamburg College of Music and Theater, and studied with several renowned Italian opera masters. She is a former member of the Central Philharmonic, and has won national singing awards in China.
Yang composed "Tiananmen Please Tell Me." She said that she chose this song to fulfill an artist's responsibilities to not only call for conscience and praise beautiful things, but also to reveal the evil in the world. "When people are deprived of freedom of belief, everything else is meaningless. Shouldn't we try to protect this freedom? I try to tell people the truth with my songs."
Yang started to practice Falun Gong in 1999, not long before the bloody persecution began. She said everyday she reads on the internet about practitioners going to Tiananmen to tell people the truth about Falun Gong, and every day practitioners are arrested there, some of whom never return alive.
"This song depicts the practitioners who go to Tiananmen to clarify the truths about Falun Gong, about their belief in Truthfulness, Compassion and Forbearance, and about those who want to be a good person but are deprived of the rights to follow goodness."
Yang said, "Humans are born with the right to believe in what they chose to believe. The freedom of belief is a natural right, not a favor from the government. What I and other Falun Gong practitioners are trying to do is to tell the truth, and to let people know what has really happened."
Lyrics:
"Tiananmen Please Tell Me"
Tiananmen Square, can you tell me: How many followers came here for the cause? Clouds in the sky: you could see the clearest, In the face of evil they kept kind. The kindhearted shed tears on their behalf, Righteous voices pled for them: Alas! So that you may hear the facts— It's for you, for you That they bore the torment
Tiananmen Square, can you tell me: How many banners were hoisted into the air? Gentle wind: you could hear the clearest, "Falun Dafa Hao!" still resounds in the air. The kindhearted shed tears on their behalf, Righteous voices pled for them: Alas! Precious Chinese people— it's for you, for you that they forfeit their return. Precious Chinese people— it's for you, for you that their voices do resound!
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